Hi All-
Hope
the semester is going great for everyone! It’s been fairly stressful and a lot of
work in each of my classes so far. I started reviewing articles on the effects
of plastics on ocean life. Plastic never fully decomposes in the environment.
It continues to break d own into smaller pieces called mircoplastics and then
further into nanoplastics. These pieces get ingested by marine life and can
kill/harm animals and the ecosystem in which they live.
I’m also curious to the effects of microplastics on humans and if/how the plastic from ocean/river is transferred through the food web.
The size of microplastics:
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